Critmas
Salome WagaineAn advent calendar for cultural criticism
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Wrap-up
a recent view from my dining table: one goal for 2026 is to collate my postcard collection — I buy at least one for every exhibition I go to and have done for maybe 15 years now? yeesh.
Hello, everyone! Hope you had good Christmases and ar...
#24: 'by choice'
A version of this was read at Moody’s Nativity Party at the Jago on 19th December. If you have the opportunity to go to one of these nights…do! They’re good fun.
Today’s entry is fundamentally about fertility. While I do not go through wi...
Incomplete pitches
Greek salad chips — made by me with orange peppers (the best kind for salad purposes imo)
Penultimate post of 2025! Here’s some assorted thoughts:
- The meanest thing I said about an artist this year was being unsurprised they were obse...
#22: Dream big
I’ve only got a couple more posts after this, so I debated whether I included the EsDeeKid/Chalamet collaboration at the end of something else. But this is the reason I don’t write Critmases too far in advance: something remarkable might ju...
#21: À bientôt, Pompidou!
view from the Pompidou, May 2023
I started liking Paris properly in 2023. I visited this January for a few days with a friend, and returned in September for a day trip, linked to the closing of the Pompidou Centre for refurbishment.
It w...
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Writer and trade unionist, and founder of production company, Broccoli.
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